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I was raised feral, and I mostly stayed that way.

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Gillian Flynn
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: February 10
Author
Film Critic
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Television Critic
Writer
Kansas City
Missouri
Gillian Schieber Flynn
Feral
Stayed
Mostly
Raised
Way

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